Mother's Day Gift:Drawer Sachets With Wise Craft

I have a treat for you today! My friend Blair who writes the wonderful blog, Wise Craft, is guest posting with atutorial for scented drawer sachets thatfeature a sweet child-drawn picture!~"Everyone loves scented drawers. This is one of many projects I
keep "in my back pocket" for those afternoons when my 10 year old daughter suddenly wants to "make something" (but youngerkids
could do this as well), or a quickhandmade project. Easy to do once
you gather the supplies, it creates a personaland useful gift for a
mother, grandmother, or a friend."

Materials:*each sachet is a 4 1/2" x 4 1/2" square*-
scraps of open weave cotton or linen fabric(I do not recommend
synthetics or tightly woven fabric). I used a piece of ivory linen with
a slightlycoarse weave. You could also repurpose a men'shandkerchief,
or a cloth napkin for this project.

- fabric crayons We used
fabric crayons because we had them here, and I like how the colors
"pop" out when the kids iron the finished drawing, but because these
sachets will not go through the laundry, you could use regular crayons
or colored pencils (I would not recommend markers because the of color
bleed). You could also go an extra step and embroidery your drawing if
you wanted to!

- baby powder, bath powder, or any scented powderA nice clean scent which works well for these sachets. You could also use corn starch and adda few small drops of essential
oil for scent. You will need about 1/4 of a cup for a set of 3
sachets

- bowl and spoon for powder

- essential oil, like lavender(optional if the powder is already scented, but nice!)

- cotton balls (about 7-8 per sachet)

- scissors

- pinking shears (optional)

- hand sewing needle and thread

1. With scissors, cut two 4 1/2" squares for eachsachet you will make
(because these are nice togive in sets, we usually always cut out
enoughfor at least three, so that would be 6 squares).You can fold
the fabric in half and cut out the sides of each sachet together, as
I've done here-

2. Once you cut all your squares, use yourcrayons to draw on your design, message, etc. like Emma did above.

3.
Pour the bath powder into a bowl. If youwant to add any essential oils
(I added 2 dropsof lavender to my batch), do it now. Stir it around
well.

5. Sandwich your two pieces of cloth together, edges even, wrong
sides together. With needle and thread, hand sew a running stitch (easy
stitch for a child to do) all around the squaresto stitch them
together, about 1/4" in fromthe edge. Leave an opening of 2" wide tostuff in your cotton balls.

6. Stuff in the
cotton balls (as many as it will hold,but do not distort your nice
picture), then continuestitching until you reach where you began (in myexample, because one edge was cut on the fold, I only needed to
stitch 3 edges).

7. If you want, you can pull the loose threads
at the edges to fray
them for a finished look, or if
you have access to pinking shears, you
can
pink them (as I have done below). Very simple!

Group these in sets of three and tie with a pretty ribbon for Mother's Day. ~Thank you so much to Blair for sharingthis great Mother's Day craft! Please visit her blog where she regularly features craftswith her children and for big people too! She has another Mother's Day craftthat can be found in this month's Parentsmagazine so be sure to check that out as well!

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Mother's Day Gift:Drawer Sachets With Wise Craft

I have a treat for you today! My friend Blair who writes the wonderful blog, Wise Craft, is guest posting with atutorial for scented drawer sachets thatfeature a sweet child-drawn picture!~"Everyone loves scented drawers. This is one of many projects I
keep "in my back pocket" for those afternoons when my 10 year old daughter suddenly wants to "make something" (but youngerkids
could do this as well), or a quickhandmade project. Easy to do once
you gather the supplies, it creates a personaland useful gift for a
mother, grandmother, or a friend."

Materials:*each sachet is a 4 1/2" x 4 1/2" square*-
scraps of open weave cotton or linen fabric(I do not recommend
synthetics or tightly woven fabric). I used a piece of ivory linen with
a slightlycoarse weave. You could also repurpose a men'shandkerchief,
or a cloth napkin for this project.

- fabric crayons We used
fabric crayons because we had them here, and I like how the colors
"pop" out when the kids iron the finished drawing, but because these
sachets will not go through the laundry, you could use regular crayons
or colored pencils (I would not recommend markers because the of color
bleed). You could also go an extra step and embroidery your drawing if
you wanted to!

- baby powder, bath powder, or any scented powderA nice clean scent which works well for these sachets. You could also use corn starch and adda few small drops of essential
oil for scent. You will need about 1/4 of a cup for a set of 3
sachets

- bowl and spoon for powder

- essential oil, like lavender(optional if the powder is already scented, but nice!)

- cotton balls (about 7-8 per sachet)

- scissors

- pinking shears (optional)

- hand sewing needle and thread

1. With scissors, cut two 4 1/2" squares for eachsachet you will make
(because these are nice togive in sets, we usually always cut out
enoughfor at least three, so that would be 6 squares).You can fold
the fabric in half and cut out the sides of each sachet together, as
I've done here-

2. Once you cut all your squares, use yourcrayons to draw on your design, message, etc. like Emma did above.

3.
Pour the bath powder into a bowl. If youwant to add any essential oils
(I added 2 dropsof lavender to my batch), do it now. Stir it around
well.

5. Sandwich your two pieces of cloth together, edges even, wrong
sides together. With needle and thread, hand sew a running stitch (easy
stitch for a child to do) all around the squaresto stitch them
together, about 1/4" in fromthe edge. Leave an opening of 2" wide tostuff in your cotton balls.

6. Stuff in the
cotton balls (as many as it will hold,but do not distort your nice
picture), then continuestitching until you reach where you began (in myexample, because one edge was cut on the fold, I only needed to
stitch 3 edges).

7. If you want, you can pull the loose threads
at the edges to fray
them for a finished look, or if
you have access to pinking shears, you
can
pink them (as I have done below). Very simple!

Group these in sets of three and tie with a pretty ribbon for Mother's Day. ~Thank you so much to Blair for sharingthis great Mother's Day craft! Please visit her blog where she regularly features craftswith her children and for big people too! She has another Mother's Day craftthat can be found in this month's Parentsmagazine so be sure to check that out as well!